Health care and global justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12889773 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Kirby (0000-0002-4791-3582, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 273-284 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Law in Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-5523 • E-ISSN: 1744-5531 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1744552311000127 |
| OpenAlex | W2060075852 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
After outlining his experience in the world of bioethics, the author draws on his role in the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee to explain the new Universal Declaration of Bioethics , adopted by UNESCO in 2005. He describes it as the first global attempt to reconcile the differing sources of bioethical principles: health-care practice and experience and universal human rights. Whilst collecting, and accepting, some criticism of the text of the Declaration, the author sees its chief values as lying in the wider ethical issues that it reflected of concern to the community, the world and biosphere as well as in the adjustment of health-care approaches for consistency with the growing impact of universal human rights law. Whilst acknowledging the differing social experiences of people in different regions of the world, he invokes Amartya Sen to cast doubt on the notion of specific ‘Asian values’, whether in bioethics or human rights
Bioethics · Consistency (knowledge bases · Criticism · Declaration · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Global health · Health care · Human rights · Political science · Right to health · Sociology · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Patient Dignity and Privacy
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |